This is a continuity of the Taiwanese stories (http://thetaiwanese.blogspot.com/) where the blog started in 2005. This site also serves as links to that original site. I began with the story of Dr. Beeby to whom we, the Taiwanese, owed so much. Beeby's unquestionable love of Taiwan was beyond description. Now the latest story is about an European American Taiwanese Dr. Gelzer who passed away a week after the historical election victory of the Taiwanese people in 1-16-2016.

Friday, March 22, 2013

--- A British missionary with a Taiwanese heartRev. Beeby was a British Reformed Church missionary, originally sent to
Amoy, China, then to Tainan, Taiwan. He first was a teacher and the chaplain of
the Chang Jung Middle School.He then
moved on to teach the Old Testament Theology at the Tainan Theological College
and Seminary (TTCS). He also taught English at Cheng-kung National University
part time.Dr. Beeby spent 22 years in
Taiwan teaching Old Testament theology; preaching the love of God and the wisdom of the words of God, among others.
He loved Taiwan so much that he once applied the citizenship of Taiwan, though
unsuccessfully.

Beeby
was the first British missionary being expelled by the Communist
China (1949-50) and the Nationalist KMT in Taiwan (1972)

He spoke better Taiwanese than many Taiwanese

He was one of the few who applied the citizenship of
Taiwan

He
said that a good preacher should be like a prophet in the Old Testament where
he pointed out the sins of the enemies of Israel before the judgments of God would soon come down too; e.g., Amos to Israel

Perhaps
better off by using the metaphorsto point out the
messages; e.g., Nathan to King David

He suggested that in the 1960’s, the only way to understand
the Taiwanese newspapers was to read them “upside down”

In 2001 Dr. Beeby
was invited by the Midwest Taiwanese-American Association Annual Meeting held
in Central College, as the keynote speaker. With his beautiful Taiwanese, Beeby
began his speech by asking a simple yet stunning question, "What is the Taiwanese culture that you folks carry on here in the
United States?”

He
was the one who dreamed in Taiwanese language well into his retirement in
England